The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader (Pocket)
avImamu Amiri Baraka, William J. Harris, William J. (EDT) Harris
ISBN: 9781560252382 - UTGIVEN: 1999-11Amiri Baraka - dramatist, poet, essayist, orator, and fiction writer - is one of the preeminent African-American literary figures of our time. The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader provides the most comprehensive selection of Baraka's work to date, spanning almost 40 years of a brilliant, prolific, a[...]
A Raisin in the Sun and the Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (Pocket)
avLorraine Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff, Imamu Amiri Baraka
ISBN: 9780679755319 - UTGIVEN: 199505By the time of her death thirty years ago, at the tragically young age of thirty-four, Lorraine Hansberry had created two electrifying masterpieces of the American theater. With A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry gave this country its most movingly authentic portrayal of black family life in the inner c[...]
Blues People (Häftad)
avLeRoi Jones, Imamu Amiri Baraka
ISBN: 9780688184742 - UTGIVEN: 1999-01"The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music -- through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel development, jazz... If] the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in [...]
The Autobiography of Leroi Jones (Pocket)
avImamu Amiri Baraka
ISBN: 9781556522314 - UTGIVEN: 1997-02The complete autobiography of a literary legend. Poet, dramatist, novelist, critic, teacher, and political activist Amiri Baraka, born LeRoi Jones, vividly recounts his crusading role in African American literature. A driving force behind the Black Arts Movement, the prolific Baraka retells his expe[...]
